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Over a 12-year career as an independent investigative journalist, Nafeez has broken groundbreaking stories on national and international security issues, the environment, energy, the economy, foreign affairs, and counter-terrorism. Hisexclusive stories and analysis have been published byThe Guardian,The Independent,Le Monde diplomatique,The Atlantic,among other newspapers and magazines. Since April 2013, Nafeez has written for The Guardian on the geopolitics of interconnected environmental, energy and economic crises via hisEarth Insightglobal column, where his reporting and analysis triggered global headlines on issues from mass surveillance to Mideast geopolitical conflict, from the Arctic death spiral to the great civilisational transition. Nafeez is also an international security columnist for Al-Arabiya English, and has written, reported and commented regularly for a range of newspapers and magazines in the UK, US and Europe. In 2002, Nafeez's debut book, The War on Freedom, conducted the first credible, critical investigation into the events leading up to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The book was used by the 9/11 Family Steering Committee to inform the lines of inquiry on whose basis the 9/11 families demanded a US government investigation of the attacks, and went on to be made mandatory reading for the 9/11 Commissioners among 99 specialist books on international terrorism. This work was updated via Nafeez's 2005 book, The War on Truth, excerpts of which were entered into the Congressional Record via his testimony in Congress that year.In 2003, Nafeez documented through his book, Behind the War on Terror, how the US and Britain had deliberately suppressed UN findings that Saddam had destroyed his weapons of mass destruction, to justify a permanent military presence in the Persian Gulf to dominate regional oil and gas supplies. In 2006, he reported exclusively that some US financial analysts were predicting an imminent collapse of the global banking system. He also disclosed that US Army officials were exploring the need to re-draw the map of the Middle East to sustain access to regional energy supplies.Writing for Raw Story that year, Nafeez broke the story that the British government's liquid bomb plot narrative was incoherent, based on a senior former British military explosives expert.That year, Nafeez also released his book, The London Bombings, which investigated the intelligence and foreign policy failures behind the 7/7 terrorist attacks on the London tube network. The book's findings fed into a special report by Nafeez sponsored by the law firm, Garden Court Chambers, which became mandatory reading for all special counsel in the Coroner's Inquest into the London Bombings.In 2008, Nafeez reported that the former senior British Army official working with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, Brigadier James Ellery, had confirmed that the Iraq War was motivated to avert the impact of global peak oil by opening up Iraq's oil production to world markets.In 2009, Nafeez exposed the role of competition to control natural gas in the Israel-Palestine conflict, including Operation Cast Lead. He has pursued this story more recently with a series of groundbreaking stories in The Guardian and The Ecologist exposing the public record evidence of US and British governmental and corporate complicity in Israeli efforts to dominate off-shore Palestinian gas reserves in Gaza. His Guardian story linking Operation Protective Edge to longstanding Israeli ambitions to control Gaza's gas resources is the single most popular article on the Guardian website about the Gaza conflict.Nafeez has twice won the coveted Project Censored Award, the annual award made by Sonoma State University (California State University) for the "most censored and under-reported news stories in the US." He won the 2013 award for his Guardian report on
food riots as the new normal, and again in 2014 for his Guardian article on the covert interests and energy
geopolitics behind the Ukraine crisis.

In February 2011, Nafeez was the first to report that the Arab Spring events were triggered by a confluence of climate, energy, and economic crises combined with political repression, for a wide range of publications including Le Monde diplomatique, The Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Yes! Magazine, among others.

In 2013, he reported exclusively that journalists inside the Sunday Times had confirmed that the newspaper's investigation into the claims of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds had been "shut down" under political pressure from the US State Department.

In December 2013, Nafeez published an exclusive investigation for Le Monde diplomatique into UK counter-terrorism strategy which found that the British government had years ago received credible advanced warning of a Woolwich-style attack from UK-based Islamist extremists. Nafeez also reported, citing high-level Whitehall sources, that Ed Husain's memoirs, The Islamist, had originally been "ghostwritten in Whitehall."

Via The Guardian Nafeez has broken numerous other hard-hitting stories on the deep politics behind energy, environmental and economic crises, including exclusive coverage of a secret White House meeting to plan responses to Arctic sea ice diminishing faster than conventional model projections;the role of peak oil, climate change and pipeline geopolitics in the Syria conflict;UK Ministry of Defence forecasts of how rising energy prices will prolong economic recession and provoke civil unrest in Britain;the link between NSA mass surveillance and Pentagon planning for impact of climate, energy and economic shocks on domestic unrest and activism;former senior BP geologists and other oil industry experts on the end of cheap oil and gas, and the unsustainability of fracking;the likely deepening of global economic recession on a business-as-usual trajectory;among many others.

In mid-March 2014, Nafeez reported for The Guardian that a scientific study part-funded by NASA had modelled the risks of civilisational collapse based on the history of the rise and fall of past human civilisations. High levels of inequality were a crucial feature of the model.His story was cited across the world in a wide range of media outlets, including The Independent, Daily Mail, Irish Times, National Journal, National Post, Times of India, Metro, New York Post, and dozens of others.

Nafeez was also the first to expose the role of the Pentagon's Minerva initiative in funding universities to develop new tools and models to track social movements and monitor peaceful activists, including algorithms and data-mining tools, which could be used by the US military intelligence community in concurrent counter-terrorism operations. He first broke this story via The Guardian, following it up with an in-depth four-part investigation published by Occupy.com. His Occupy investigation showed that Pentagon was seeking through Minerva to enhance its capacity to fine-tune terrorism watch lists, including the CIA's kill list for extrajudicial drone-strike assassinations, with dangerous ramifications both abroad and at home.

Nafeez's most recent scoop was broken via Raw Story, and found that IRS whistleblowers had accused US Treasury and IRS executives of facilitating fraudulent tax giveaways to corporations, particularly energy companies, to the tune of billions of dollars. The whistleblowers claimed that this was due to entrenched institutional corruption due to a 'revolving door' between the IRS, large firms, and corporate lobbies.

Here is a small sample of some of Nafeez's earlier articles over the years:

Acclaim

"International security analyst and consultant who has spent much time looking at how environmental risks and terrorism threaten our eco-security and well-being."

The Evening Standard's 1000 most influential Londoners 2014

"Yes, yes, I know he is one of Them. But they often know things that we don’t – particularly about what we are up to"

Gore Vidal, The Observer

"Ahmed is that rare breed of journalist who finds stories everyone else either misses or chooses to overlook; he regularly joins up the dots in a global system of corporate pillage... a voice from the genuine left, and one too independent to control"

Jonathan Cook, former Guardian columnist and foreign desk editor

"If you still need something to worry about, how about a grand conflagration of climate, financial, energy, food, and civil-liberties crises, which might destroy the world as we know it before the century is out?... Forceful and well sourced"

Steven Poole, The Guardian

"Lucid and persuasive account of how our security mandarins talked themselves into believing we could make quiet, backroom deals with terrorists"

Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

"Disturbing and clearly evidenced... Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed traces the unholy games played with Islamist terrorists by the US, and through acquiescence by the UK, flirting with them when it suited and then turning against them"

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent

"Respected terror analyst Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed pulls apart the official narrative of 7/7, pointing out its gaps and contradictions... The authorities seem to be unable to answer many of the most basic questions about the 7/7 bombings ... it has taken a study by an academic outsider, Ahmed, to assess the extent of the bombers’ international terrorist connections."

Editorial, Independent on Sunday

"One of the most illuminating voices in the British media"

Rob Hopkins, founder, Transition Towns movement

"A risible individual wedded to half-baked conspiracy-mongering"

Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair

"Nafeez Ahmed’s understanding of the post 9/11 power game, its lies, illusions and dangers, is no less than brilliant. Everyone should read this wise and powerfully illuminating book."

John Pilger, Emmy and BAFTA award-winning journalist

"I wish every American who still believes in the good intentions of our government would read this book. Drawing upon his impressive research into recent history, Nafeez Ahmed skilfully exposes the real motives behind the 'war on terrorism' and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq."

Howard Zinn

"Nafeez Ahmed demonstrates brilliantly that the war on freedom is inseparable from the war on truth."

Vandana Shiva

"As carefully laid out and sourced as one could want... I find the author's argument that the US, the UK, and France, among others, have been actively using terrorists, nurturing terrorists, as part of a geopolitical and economic strategy, and that in their naiveté they nurtured a force they cannot control today, to be completely credible"

Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP, UK Minister of State for the Environment (1997-2003)

"Few thinkers weave as many threads into a tapestry as Nafeez Ahmed has done so superbly... only root-to-branch rewriting of the global economic operating manual can save society from an unliveable future"

"A staggeringly comprehensive bird’s-eye view of the gaping cracks that are appearing in global industrial civilization"

Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow-in-Residence, Post-Carbon Institute

"An impressive study of key crises confronting our civilization... a unique attempt to demonstrate their systematic interconnections... Ahmed is very deliberately a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary scholar... Throughout, [he] draws convincingly and commandingly on a number of fields, including climate sciences, geology, monetary and financial economics, and systems theory, among many others"

Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

"A powerful and convincing account of how our civilization is threatened by a system of crises... [Ahmed] clearly and directly explains that, while the impact of each of these crises is great, we can only understand their true impact and how to potentially solve or mitigate them as a system"

About this blog

"posits that in every culture and society there are facts which tend to be suppressed collectively, because of the social and psychological costs of not doing so."

Deep political analysis digs

"beneath public formulations of policy issues to the bureaucratic, economic, and ultimately covert and criminal activities which underlie them."

(Peter Dale Scott, University of California, Berkeley)

On this blog, I engage in deep political analysis in the context of the Crisis of Civilization – the convergence and escalation of environmental degradation, species extinctions, climate change, energy depletion, food crisis, water shortages, economic/financial instability, inequality/poverty, religious/political extremism, moral confusion, mental illness, and finally, philosophical/epistemological vacuity. As these crises systemically converge and accelerate, Civilization continues to respond largely with denial, guaranteeing a business-as-usual trajectory toward worst case scenarios. The only viable alternative is to respond through direct confrontation with that which has been suppressed.